(Textbook) Chapter 1 Lesson 1

Question 1

Physical Geography

Answer 1

The study of natural processes/the distribution of features in the environment

Question 2

Human geography

Answer 2

The study of how people use/alter the Earth

Question 3

Spatial perspective

Answer 3

Where something is located (and why)

Question 4

Ecological perspective

Answer 4

The relationships between living things and their environments

Question 5

“Thinking geographically”

Answer 5

Thinking to answer the following questions:
Where?
Why there?
Why care?

Question 6

Location

Answer 6

The position that something occupies on Earth

Question 7

Absolute location

Answer 7

Exact latitude and longitude of an object

Question 8

Relative location

Answer 8

Description of where an object is compared to other places (ANYTHING other than latitude/longitude, e.g. 134 miles southeast of Vienna)

Question 9

Place

Answer 9

A location distinguished by its physical and human characteristics

Question 10

Sense of place

Answer 10

The emotions attached to an area based on a person’s experiences

Question 11

Site

Answer 11

A place’s absolute location and physical characteristics

Question 12

Situation

Answer 12

A place’s connection to other places, including transportation, political association, and economic/cultural ties

Question 13

Mental maps

Answer 13

Internalized representations of portions of Earth’s surface

Question 14

Space

Answer 14

Area between 2 (or more) objects

Question 15

Distributed

Answer 15

The way objects are organized

Question 16

Density

Answer 16

The number of things in a specific area

Question 17

Pattern

Answer 17

How things are arranged in a particular space (geometrically, more random, etc.)

Question 18

Flow

Answer 18

How people, goods, and information move in/out of a place

Question 19

Environmental determinism

Answer 19

Discredited theory that promoted racism by suggesting that a location’s physical featured determined the success of people living in that location

Question 20

Distance decay

Answer 20

The father one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have

Question 21

Time-space compression

Answer 21

The relative distance between two places continues to seem less and less because of human development

Question 22

Possibilism

Answer 22

Argues that humans have more agency than environmental determinism would suggest

Question 23

Sustainability

Answer 23

Using the Earth’s resources in a way that ensures they will continue to be available in the future

Question 24

Human-environment interaction

Answer 24

Concept that humans depend upon and modify the environment

Question 25

Case Study Bonus: Why might the founders have chosen where to build New Orleans?

Answer 25

Located at the southern end of the Mississippi River
Most trade on the river would go right past the city